Dom Higgins
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Head of Health and Education @wildlifetrusts; Chair @WCL_News Nature and Wellbeing Strategy Group. Got personal views so tweet those too. RTs quite interesting.
The Hudd
Joined November 2009
The appropriately named 'Bulldozer Bill' (otherwise known as the Retained EU Law Bill). It's a massive threat to our health, wellbeing and natural environment. 👇
All we want for Christmas is… the UK Government to scrap the Bulldozer Bill! This Bill threatens over a thousand laws that protect our wildlife and special wild places💔 https://t.co/3wTCPkN7TR (1/4)
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This splendid bunch need help to buy a native woodland, *pretty urgently* so the local community can continue to use it. So the wildlife continues to thrive in it, and so it doesn't get carved up for timber. Spread the word. And give if you are able. 👇 https://t.co/CnNzKwx2ZZ
crowdfunder.co.uk
To buy East Wood, a 20-acre mature woodland in Yorkshire, for the long-term benefit of the community, wildlife and the climate
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"Sewage discharged from Oxford works days after Thames Water apology." So just days after the minister gave water industry bosses yet another finger wagging ticking off, I'm sure an intimidating experience, the WCs do what exactly? Err? Nothing. Ho hum. https://t.co/I8zKp3Sw0J
oxfordmail.co.uk
It follows an apology from Thames Water over similar discharges elsewhere
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Hi 👋 I'm Ahmed, I'm a Muslim mental health doctor. For the last 12 years, I've swapped shifts so colleagues can celebrate the festive period with their loved ones. This year I'm working Christmas Eve, Christmas Day & Boxing Day in Emergency Psychiatry. Merry Christmas everyone.
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The Wild Winter Word War 😮 Pick your winner. A B C D
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Despite passing of the Heather and Grass Burning Regulations, after 1,500+ reports of burning on peat, just one 'formal warning' has been issued 😡🥴 https://t.co/cZfrgGJOYM
independent.co.uk
Moorland Association says figures show managers abiding by rules stopping burning on deep peat, while Greenpeace calls for a more comprehensive ban.
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Our health is shaped by many things. @WildlifeTrusts work to see people and nature thriving. This means a good home with doorstep access to nature, clean water and safe air to breathe. People with the hope, support and skills for a 'green' job. Much ill health is preventable👇
Who is part of #HealthEquals? Our campaign brings together organisations across different sectors and areas of focus, who all want to make a positive difference to society’s health and wellbeing. Meet our members 🔽 https://t.co/T5EIDFzjDc
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It's that #12DaysWild time of the year! Time to re-connect with nature over the festive season. Sign up today. https://t.co/Dn5Ggb13wD 🌳❄️
wildlifetrusts.org
Take part in The Wildlife Trusts' 12 Days of Wild Christmas! We're encouraging everyone to spend 12 Days Wild this year, and get outdoors during the festive period. Sign up and we'll give you lots of...
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If you are travelling to see friends and family over the festive period you can use this handy tool https://t.co/Uf58yFciOU to find your nearest @WildlifeTrusts nature reserve!
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After nurses and ambulance workers confirm and undertake their strikes, there's word junior doctors could be next. @DrAmirKhanGP explains why. #Lorraine
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Climate crisis has reached a critical point – and we believe that empowering young people is the way to combat it. Our Bright Future was created to do just that. 💚
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knowing you have already stuck a pin in it back home. Want to know more? You can watch @WildlifeTrusts CEO @CraigBennett3's reaction to the agreement here
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...nothing to put decades of species decline into reverse on protected sites, and speedy planting of conifer trees, which do pip all for natural habitats and don't store carbon in the long term.😖In a nutshell (case?), blow a massive trumpet to inflate a global agreement....
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...this means that the UK will NOT meet its obligation under the new Global Biodiversity Framework. The very thing that it pushed over the last few days! No overall water quality target, which means nasties like plastics & pesticides will continue to pour into our rivers & seas,
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...published its own delayed Environment Act targets, which mean nothing much happens at all for nature's recovery, and our wildlife and ecosystems will be in a similar state in 2042 as they are now (one of the most depleted in the world in case you were wondering). Unbelievably,
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A brief🧵on #COP15, the nature one, which ended with a new Global Biodiversity Framework, putting into international law, a target to protect 30% of land and sea for nature by 2030. AND YET - the very week before, our own Government, who were saying the right things at COP15...
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At 5pm, we'll be bringing you a live update from #COP15 as negotiations draw to a close. For the first time EVER, The Wildlife Trusts will be streaming across the Atlantic Ocean as we chat to @CraigBennett3 in Canada and @KathrynABrown in the UK! 👇 👇
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It’s official – more time spent in nature = better mental wellbeing. Our Bright Future enabled almost 130,000 young people to boost their mental health, empowering them to make positive changes for the future. 💪
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"If the #COP15 talks collapse, or only produce a mealy-mouthed deal, the world faces accelerating biodiversity loss. And that is something that investors, business leaders and everyone else should shriek about -very loudly" Good piece by @gilliantett @FT
https://t.co/xMt7bFIEhj
ft.com
Species are disappearing at an alarming rate and the economic consequences are catastrophic
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